stridency
Example Sentences
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What's driving this increased stridency among the public?
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
"In my judgement, this is not the time to amplify disagreement with stridency," she wrote.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2024
He added that increased Soviet stridency and aggressiveness suggested the behavior of “a wounded bear.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2022
Despite near-constant expressions of gratitude for Western aid, his public statements can occasionally veer into stridency, annoying the Biden administration on more than one occasion.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2022
It is not as though I had expected an apology from her, but the stridency of this reply did, I must say, take me aback a little.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
